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Definition of cottised in US English:

cottised

adjective

‘These do not have to be blazoned as barrulets, because when a narrow bar runs parallel to a fesse it is called cottise, and when there is one on either side of the fesse, the fesse is described as cottised.’

‘The family crest is a field azure, chevrony doubly cottised, which means the field is blue, with very thin lines of ermine forming the shape of a chevron.’

‘The additions of the bar gemelle and the cottised fess are merely ‘differences’ familiar to modern heraldry but, on crests, unknown to early practice.’

‘When there are two pairs of narrow bars on either side, the fesse is said to be doubly ‘cottised’’

‘The gold potenté bend is an adaptation of the cottised bend on the arms of Champagne.’